Many people use WhatsApp as their means of communicating with friends and family. You can share pictures, videos, and voice notes with other users who have a WhatsApp account.
Anytime you send a message to your contact, check-mark(s) usually appears, though this depends on your privacy settings. But what does this tick represent?
For every chat message, voice note, file link or media you send to any of your contacts, WhatsApp displays three check-marks to show that the communication between you and this person has been successful. Let me explain…
The first (which Whatsapp displays immediately Tap “Send”) is a single gray check-mark that indicates delivery of your message. Once your contact receives the message the app displays a double gray check-mark. This means the message has been successfully delivered to the recipient. And then there’s the last one which is a double blue check-mark. This is a confirmation that your contact or the recipient (for person’s whose mobile number is yet to be saved on your phone) has read the message.
But what happens after you see a double grey check-mark with no blue check marks?
For messages sent to WhatsApp groups, the check marks will be displayed differently. If after you send a message to a WhatsApp group and you receive a double grey check mark it means your message has been received by every member in that group. And then the double blue check-mark is a confirmation that all the group members have seen or read your message.
However, for one-on-one chat a user might disable a privacy feature called “Read Receipts” in his or her settings. This will prevent the double blue check-mark to be displayed by WhatsApp, even though the contact has read the message you sent.
There’s also a feature on WhatsApp that provides more details than just the double grey or blue checkmarks. “Info” gives details of the time the message was delivered and read. How does it work?
As you can see in the screenshot above, a chat message sent and delivered was read at the exact same time by the recipient.
1). After you’ve sent a message, wait to see if it has been delivered (in this case you will see a double check-mark).
2). Next, highlight the chat, tap the three dots at the top right corner of the chat page between you and this contact. You will see an option which reads “Info”.
3). On tapping “Info” WhatsApp displays the details of when this chat was delivered and read.
Please note that if this recipient has disabled “Read Receipts”, details of only the message’s delivery time will be shown. However you can also unsee the message. Download GB Whatsapp to unsee the messages.
